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canoeist52

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Mon Aug 12, 2013, 07:36 PM Aug 2013

"She had freedom and she was ready to use it"

http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_the_dangers_of_willful_blindness.html

"Gayla Benefield was just doing her job -- until she uncovered an awful secret about her hometown that meant its mortality rate was 80 times higher than anywhere else in the U.S. But when she tried to tell people about it, she learned an even more shocking truth: People didn’t want to know. In a talk that’s part history lesson, part call-to-action, Margaret Heffernan demonstrates the danger of "willful blindness" and praises ordinary people like Benefield who are willing to speak up. (Filmed at TEDxDanubia.)"
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"She had freedom and she was ready to use it" (Original Post) canoeist52 Aug 2013 OP
That was amazing! Thank you! Isoldeblue Aug 2013 #1
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